Ten Reasons to Watch "Patrick Melrose" Immediately
'Patrick Melrose' (2018) is one of those masterpieces, that resonated with my heart so deeply, that it's been already more than a month since I finished watching it, but it's still haunting me from time to time. There are at least 10 reasons to catch up with this beautiful mini-series, based on semi-autobiographical novels writt…
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About German Breakfast and Recent Life Changes
Over the past one and a half years, a lot of things happened: I left my job, bought a simple camera, started to take some photos for stocks, quietly married, move from Lviv to Bremen, managed to bring over my cats here and continue my daily struggle of searching myself. That was my version of "Gone With the Wind" briefly :) I didn'…
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Super Easy Tomatoes and Cheese Galette
Hey everyone! What's on the menu?:) I usually don't like to cook on a weekend, but for example, ordered food is more like a guilty pleasure for me. That's why I decided to share a very easy recipe of a tomato and cheese galette (pie/quiche/tart) that I sometimes bake on Sunday morning. It's delicious, simple, fresh and good enough to…
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Top 10 Movies of June
Hey, boys and girls (saying it as a host of Tales from the Crypt , aka The Crypt Keeper). Today I'm gonna share with you my personal list of movies I watched this month. The only warning is that most of the movies are not made in 2018 and there's no rating order. Nevertheless, the list is very diverse and I'm sure that everyone can find there s…
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Isle of Dogs (2018)
Wes Anderson is in the very personal list of my favorite directors of all the time. For years I had a poster of Moonrise Kingdom on my wall. I also kept a frame from Fantastic Mister Fox as a lock screen wallpaper on my iPhone. Anderson's talent and perfectionism was always a huge source of inspiration for me. Therefore, this post will be more as an…
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The Square (2017)
'Christian: The Square is a sanctuary of trust and caring. Within it, we all share equal rights and obligations.' Warning: this post contains strong subjective opinion about the best movie of the passing year. In 1981 French philosopher Jean Baudrillard published treatise 'Simulacra and Simulation', and this work is actually …
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Halloween Movie Night: "It Follows" (2015)
During the next 7 days, I'm going to post about dark and disturbing scary movies, that I highly recommend watching in the upcoming Halloween night. All films are carefully chosen, beautifully made, fresh and interesting. I really hope you will enjoy each and one of them! Yesterday I wrote about ''The Babadook'' ( read here ). Today I …
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Welcome to Films & Pies :) My name is Solya and this blog is a place where I write mostly about films, food and all things I really enjoy.
